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In an agent-written codebase the agent-written tests are equally untrustworthy; manually using the product is the only reliable measure of whether it works.

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What are tests for, and how much testing is enough?under our view: Tests an agent wrote cannot be trusted on their own, so a person still has to check What do coding agents change about software work?under our view: The person who checks the work is a safety property, and removing them is the risk

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  1. Mario Zechner Austrian developer who created the libGDX game framework
    Worse, you realize that the gazillions of unit, snapshot, and e2e tests you had your clankers write are equally untrustworthy. The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product.

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